Beware the version of the Modern Library list that was voted on by the public. That was before people realized that any such vote would be carpet-bombed by Rand

Beware the version of the Modern Library list that was voted on by the public. That was before people realized that any such vote would be carpet-bombed by Randroids and Scientologists, which is exactly what happened. Here's a good "list of lists" for great books: http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/greatbks.html http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/greatbks.html I've generally used a subtractive approach Bloom's massive "Western Canon" list for generating my own to-read list, cross referencing with other lists to determine what to cut, with supplementation from areas it does not and does not claim to cover (the East, which damn is it a lot of work to find good sources for Eastern works in English translation, science, history, et c.)